I dunno. He used to have a reputation for being a really nice guy who never wanted anything but to make stuff and make people laugh, and you'd never hear a bad word about him. He was super humble, grateful for where he was, and acknowledged that Bo Selecta became awful near the end, but that C4 wanted him to do more, so he did. When he was on that Comedy Map of Britain show on the BBC a few years ago, he was clambering up into the loft of his parents' house and bringing down the Gremlins he'd made out of papier mache as a teenager, because he remade the entire movie himself, just for the fun of it. That's where the Bo Selecta masks came from.

These days though, if you go through his Twitter timeline, he really does not take kindly to any negativity. He threw a massive tantrum at Alex Zane for giving the Keith Lemon movie a bad review "thanks mate for the knife in the back" kinda thing, and going on and on about it for ages, about how he'd been betrayed, with zero self-awareness that a film like that is never going to get a decent review. Surely he knows he's just churning out utter thoughtless shit? I watched him run someone else off Twitter last week too, for really obviously jokingly comparing Lemon's appearance to that of Savile. "cheers mate so I look like a paedo do I you cunt?" and really humourlessly threatening them and being abusive, despite their apologies. It's shitty to see the way he's turned out. He seems like a different guy these days.

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Would like to echo the sentiments re: HG's work on this list. That bit of Terry trivia Chest quoted and the picture you used for his big reveal were the icing on a bile filled yet somehow delicious hate cake.